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To counterbalance the inevitable and let's be fair, justified Beatles overload and with a view to stopping the blog tipping over completely into the murky mists of time, I ask the following - What are you listening to that's current?
For any of the blue rinse brigade (you know who you are) that means NEW as in poppin' fresh - not just new to you.
As is traditional and proper, I'll start it off with this little slice of pure pop joy by Just Jack (woah! Come back!) Give it a chance, you might just like it...
The officail video is embedding disabled so I've included a little acoustic version. Take your pick.
And please reply with one of your own.

Just Jack – The Day I Died: http://open.spotify.com/track/4WfjFbEmRgqjlRfpIFfxjJ

In my defence, you posted that on a Wednesday and as everyone knows, Wednesday night is business time.

"And Wednesday night is the night that we usually make love
Monday night is my night to cook
Tuesday night we go and visit your mother
But Wednesday we make sweet weekly love"

Blame Flight of the Conchords. :-)

will never be the same again. Every 4th Friday for me.

...believe they have some new stuff coming soon. Love "Pop Ambient 2009" on the Kompakt label.

...I saw this thread and was ging to put Deerhunter , Bradford Cox from Atlas Sound's other band. I think he's a bit of a genius.
Microcastle by Deerhunter is my favourite album since god knows when , i've played it to death and i love the Atlas Sound stuff too.
They're brilliant live too .
Check them out on youtube "Noisepop 2009"

I'm not very good with "new".

The new bands I do like sound like they have been around for 40 years but I do have a soft spot for The Envelopes.

An unusual voice - think Billy McKenzie

If you like that, listen to track 5 'We Still Got The Taste Dancin On Our Tongues' here.
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers: http://open.spotify.com/album/6Eoj1zHUY3VYUocKZVCawO

... the new album is absolutely excellent.

by The XX, and it's rather good in a kind of 80s ish, Everything but the Girl sort of way. This track isn't on the album btw.

I really do. I love them. In fact, coincidentally I am listening to the album as I type this. They are my favourites.

have been added to the new series of Later..
Sept 29th show.
The album is, as you say, rather good
The xx – xx: http://open.spotify.com/album/2nXJkqkS1tIKIyhBcFMmwz

I have seen the future of rock and roll and his name is Kid Carpet :-)

is that the 1962 Gibson I can hear?

I give you.....Rancid

(sorry no proper video)

The XX - truly amazing, sort of indie post rock pop. Nice.
The Invisible - a lo-fi English TV On The radio
The Deer Tracks - girly fronted Swedish post rock
N.A.S.A. - Hipster fuelled mad hip hop producers. Plus Tom Waits.
Olafur Arnalds - fairly new Icelandic composer. Beautiful.
Playdoe - South African hip hop / electro. "Pop Like This" especially.
Vib Gyor - Epic Irish indie. Like Coldplay but better.
The Temper Trap - maybe a little over exposed, but a very good album.

The album is SO good. Especially this track -
Passion Pit – Let Your Love Grow Tall: http://open.spotify.com/track/4mzbhx9B6aLwdaasXXTsUW

Passion Pit – Manners: http://open.spotify.com/album/1ooLVHhUYstvazUoOtUPSn

And check out some of the remixes through the hype machine as well. Brilliant album.

For me ?

Friendly Fires

Empire of the Sun

La Roux (check out Skream's Lets Get Ravey Remix on Spotify)
http://open.spotify.com/track/6RcByPoFlaUVAn2PnTxSVr

on Friendly Fires. They really seem to have something different, fabulous live apprently too.

bursting with energy.
He does appear to be doing a bit of 'Dad Dancing' in this video, though..

they require their own thread. They didn't win the Mercury Music Prize so a "shout out" on the Word Blog would be some compensation. After you!

but a new(ish) video - so it's in

Radiohead Weird Fishes by Tobias Stretch from Tobias Stretch on Vimeo.

Better than the 'official' video

...and that's a crazy video (White Denim, that is).

Stumbled upon this at the Drowned in Sound website. I have one of their albums, but wasn't aware they had new stuff out. This is marvellous.

but it sounds kinda old.

Heard this loads on Radio 2 recently and can't help but love it.
This isn't the best clip in the world, but here is the Spotify link if you want to hear the proper version.
http://open.spotify.com/track/6WOLw3cYm4kaaiGVWKUonP

Bought his 'new' album today after Spotifying it. I would like to recommend it to you all. Its' actually a compilation of tracks from his first four albums and as such isn't really new, but as I'm the only one posting to this thread, I'm putting it in. Oh, and this song isn't on it, (edit - just discovered that it is on the album, it's attached to the last song in that annoying way which means you have to split them apart so as not to be furious every time you play it!! So, they are split - thankyou 'MP3 Trimmer' [great piece of software, for those of you who don't already have it] - so carry on) but it's stupendous and sounds like the rest of the album. So.

Thomas Dybdahl – Thomas Dybdahl: http://open.spotify.com/album/1j9opx74wYF2kc3CVcH45F

It sounds a lot like them. Nah, It's Monsters of Folk!

http://www.emusic.com/album/Monsters-Of-Folk-Monsters-Of-Folk-MP3-Downlo...
Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk: http://open.spotify.com/album/5IYzvGYq475r52HxDuWU58

Enjoying some "Humbug" in these parts...

Title
Chillaxing...	184
Reply with a crap James Bond	132
Least rock and roll-looking frontman?	121
In praise of the Chelsea pensioners...	100
Music to sleep to	65
Eating in Pubs - not what it used to be	64
Records You Most Definitely Shouldn't Have Liked As A Teenager	63
Songs About Trains... let's rock!	62
'70s Music'	47
In the New issue Mark Ellen says Ross Noble is Welsh	47

Title
Anyone you'd care to nominate for future Word In Your Ear gigs?	203
Chillaxing...	184
It'sh All About Yourshelf - A	162
A Taste Amnesty	151
Poor, poor Rebekah Brooks.	145
Famous films that you 'dont get'	140
Roy Hodgson for England ?	137
Dexys on Jools Holland last night	135
Reply with a crap James Bond	132
The Classic Americana Album?	126

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